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Because of the resources there and the similarity of the Indies to Brazil.
Great Britain is the uppermost outlined box, below that is France, the 2nd to last one is United States, and the lowest one is The Netherlands.
World War II is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and the United Kingdom. ... On 22 June 1941, the European Axis powers launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, opening the largest land theatre of war in history.